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there's not a #*us-egypt free trade geement given all the uncertainty in egypt within the foreseeable future, but if it is serious, egypt can reap many of the benefits of free trade through the massive expansion of the qu disirks system with -- qiz system with israel. they would lower the amount of israeli content required to be as part of the deal, but that would require the islamest president of egypt to recognize the benefits of much significantly broadened qiz relationship and to, in fact, utter the word publicly, "israel," something which he was not yet done in the official capacity. a third initiative, repairing israeli-turkish ties. it's in the interest of the countries. i know, mr. president, you tried, once to do this, and we did not succeed, but times have changed. syria has happened, they are weakened than before, and should benjamin netanyahu be elected, he'll be stronger after the election than he was the last time we tried to do this. after politics is clarified, it's time to try this again. well, one last set of items, what are the game changers? what are the unknowns a
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is it important for the united states to invest in egypt, for the private sector to invest in egypt, for the government to invest in learning about egypt? absolutely, yes. is it important for the united states government to help libya develop with the education that the ambassador mentioned and the clinics and the investment the roads and the alternative industries? absolutely crucial to do this. we need to focus on this. it could help to have coalitions with the europeans. but the europeans are in a somewhat perilous situation right now. we need to keep an eye on the ball here. we may be in a moment of debt and deficit in this country, but with the natural gas and oil mentioned earlier today all of this could be resolved. we are coming back as a country. this whole business is over with in six to eight years if we do the right thing. we need to keep in play our private sector needs to keep in play. if we don't, we are going to lose big time. and my sense is in the intermediate period where the government can't do all this, the private sector needs to step in, and the government need
is it important for the united states to invest in egypt, for the private sector to invest in egypt, for the government to invest in learning about egypt? absolutely, yes. is it important for the united states government to help libya develop with the education that the ambassador mentioned and the clinics and the investment the roads and the alternative industries? absolutely crucial to do this. we need to focus on this. it could help to have coalitions with the europeans. but the europeans...
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so this is a digression now we have to go 0 back to egypt in 18942. what was interesting in a way what was about to happen to rob that this point was all hell was about to break loose for him. he would be moved to the front line. he learned how to operate he thought it was a wonderful enormous gun called a six pounder. and he and the other men lined up along the alamein line. there were hundreds of thousand -- tens of thousands of men anyway. and he found as he got out there he loved the dessert too. he was a fan of wide open spaces, and he liked the independent life the soldiers were able to lead there kind of each man alone with the jeep in the dessert. anyway time went buy and clear that the battle was approaching. they kept repeating the same exercise marching through simulating mine fields, three of them at the time during the same amount of period they were being trained for the assault, which began on the night of october 23rd just about seventy years ago four dais ago. i would like to read another short bit which describes what it was like for
so this is a digression now we have to go 0 back to egypt in 18942. what was interesting in a way what was about to happen to rob that this point was all hell was about to break loose for him. he would be moved to the front line. he learned how to operate he thought it was a wonderful enormous gun called a six pounder. and he and the other men lined up along the alamein line. there were hundreds of thousand -- tens of thousands of men anyway. and he found as he got out there he loved the...
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now we have to go back egypt in 1942. but but what was interesting and away was what was about to happen at this point is all hell was about to break loose to him. he learned how to operate a gun that was 6 pounds. .. >> it was clear the day of battle was approaching. they kept repeating the same exercise, marching through simulated mine fields, three at a time during the same amount of period they were trained for the assault that began on the night of october 23rd, just about 70 # years ago, four days ago. i would like to now read another short bit which describes what it was like for jack at the southern end of the line as the night of battle arrived, and they were ordered into action. as dusk fell on the western desert, 10,000-plus men of the southern armored division mountedded the vehicles and jockeyed for places in column. the thunder of tank engines throbbed in their ears. four lines comprising gun carriers, troop carriers, jeeps, tanks, antitank guns, and trucks traveled across the sand. columns lurched forward,
now we have to go back egypt in 1942. but but what was interesting and away was what was about to happen at this point is all hell was about to break loose to him. he learned how to operate a gun that was 6 pounds. .. >> it was clear the day of battle was approaching. they kept repeating the same exercise, marching through simulated mine fields, three at a time during the same amount of period they were trained for the assault that began on the night of october 23rd, just about 70 # years...
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a lower in alexandria, egypt where the british had a large fleet. and the two biggest but not quite finished battleships of the french fled to the car, west africa, and casablanca. but there was a very large flotilla on the algerian coast. there were a couple of battleships, some big cruisers, and the british came up with this idea. they called it operation catapult. on the morning of july 3, they were going to seize as many french ships as they possibly could buy agreement, hopefully, but if not, by force. and they figured, and portsmouth and plymouth, england, these ports are surrounded by british ships and british coastal batteries and that kind of thing. and in alexandria egypt kind of the same thing because there was a british port with the british origin big guns. there was only the french flotilla here, was a french naval base. and the british naval command, radioed of course in code to their fleet in gibraltar, and they said, this is what you have to do. you have to sail through the ninth of july 2 and 3rd, and show up at dawn. and give our
a lower in alexandria, egypt where the british had a large fleet. and the two biggest but not quite finished battleships of the french fled to the car, west africa, and casablanca. but there was a very large flotilla on the algerian coast. there were a couple of battleships, some big cruisers, and the british came up with this idea. they called it operation catapult. on the morning of july 3, they were going to seize as many french ships as they possibly could buy agreement, hopefully, but if...
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and in alexandria, egypt, kind of the same thing because there was a british port with british forts and big guns and british fleet around. in algeria it was a different thing entirely because it was a french naval base, and the admiralcy, which is the british naval command, radioed, of course in code, to their fleet in gibraltar, and they said this is what you have to do. you have to sail through the night of july 2nd and 3rd and show up at dawn. and give our terms to the french fleet. and the terms were or were going to be, um, you were our loyal ally in the fight against the germans up until just days ago. sail out of your port and join us in the fight against the germans. if you can't do that, give us your ships. we'll sail them with british sailors and give them back to you when the war is over. if you can't do that, sail the french ships that you have here to the caribbean, to martinique, and the americans will assure their neutrality during the war. if you can't do that, we regret to have to ask you to scuttle your ships within six hours. and if you can't do that, we'll take w
and in alexandria, egypt, kind of the same thing because there was a british port with british forts and big guns and british fleet around. in algeria it was a different thing entirely because it was a french naval base, and the admiralcy, which is the british naval command, radioed, of course in code, to their fleet in gibraltar, and they said this is what you have to do. you have to sail through the night of july 2nd and 3rd and show up at dawn. and give our terms to the french fleet. and the...
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kunkel to tunisia and egypt and all the line and looks like every other part of the egyptian desert which is to say sand, flat, rocks, you can't imagine why this point would be the place the two armies can to a halt but the reason i couldn't be outflanked, it was blocked on the north by the mediterranean sea to on a self this kind of a sandy area which is impossible for heavy vehicles such as tanks for instance. one of rommel's track's when he was around the opposing army was to jump on them from behind but that couldn't happen here. they were pouring material into the spot on the egyptian desert when he decided to fight, and then when they got to egypt for the first time the were separated into two groups. jack brister joined the first battalion and went down to the southern end of the line with the armored division which was the story of the desert, the very famous part of the british army. they were sent off with the second battalion and went up to the north end of the line so between them, between the two groups they pretty much saw most of the battle when it finally came octobe
kunkel to tunisia and egypt and all the line and looks like every other part of the egyptian desert which is to say sand, flat, rocks, you can't imagine why this point would be the place the two armies can to a halt but the reason i couldn't be outflanked, it was blocked on the north by the mediterranean sea to on a self this kind of a sandy area which is impossible for heavy vehicles such as tanks for instance. one of rommel's track's when he was around the opposing army was to jump on them...
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egypt free trade agreement given all the uncertainty in egypt with in the foreseeable future. but if it is serious, egypt can read many of the benefits of free trade through the expansion of the system with israel. israel would do this in a heartbeat and with even lower the amount of an israeli continent to be required as part of the deal. but that would require the islamist president of egypt to recognize the benefits of broadened relationship and to in fact utter the word publicly israel, something which he hasn't yet done in his official capacity. a third initiative, repairing turkish israel ties. it's overdue, it's in our interests and in the interest of both of these countries i know mr. president you try once to do this and we did not succeed the the times have changed. syria has happened, it's weaker today than before and should he get reelected he will be after his election than he was after the last time we tried to do this after the politics is clarified it's time to try this again. one last set of items were the game changers what are the unknowns as dennis referred
egypt free trade agreement given all the uncertainty in egypt with in the foreseeable future. but if it is serious, egypt can read many of the benefits of free trade through the expansion of the system with israel. israel would do this in a heartbeat and with even lower the amount of an israeli continent to be required as part of the deal. but that would require the islamist president of egypt to recognize the benefits of broadened relationship and to in fact utter the word publicly israel,...
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and then they reached suez in egypt on september 3rd, 1942. now, i should probably give a little background on the war in north africa. historians when they talk about it tend to use metaphors like seesaw, pendulum. it was this peculiar sort of rhythm of war that began in the fall of 1940. mussolini had visions of grandeur, i guess, wanted to ride his white stallion down the streets of cairo. he had trooped in libya when was an italian colony, and he decided to make a play for cairo, attack the british going east. the british attacked right back and went, drove the italians pretty far west into libya at which point hitler realized he really needed to bail out his pal, mussolini, although i don't think he was happy about it. so he sent in irwin rommel, the famous tank commander, along with a bunch of perhapsers, and he effectively drove the british back into egypt. now, when the summer rolls around, things would kind of quiet down. it was terribly hot, and the campaigning would sort of cease, the two sides would dig in, and then in the fall of
and then they reached suez in egypt on september 3rd, 1942. now, i should probably give a little background on the war in north africa. historians when they talk about it tend to use metaphors like seesaw, pendulum. it was this peculiar sort of rhythm of war that began in the fall of 1940. mussolini had visions of grandeur, i guess, wanted to ride his white stallion down the streets of cairo. he had trooped in libya when was an italian colony, and he decided to make a play for cairo, attack the...
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israel, egypt, pakistan, iraq, and afghanistan. nothing wrong with that, but we have to work with our frens to the south. we put in 1.4, and with additional money, it's $1.9 billion. for every one dollar we help with mexico, they spend $13. they spend a lot of money on security. they got to -- we got to understand what they are doing. now, what we started off, we did the easy thing, buy them hell cometters, buying this, and e worked with george bush, and filed the first legislation before bush talked about the plan because i felt that strongly about helping mexico, but nevertheless, we worked together. we did the easy thing with mexico, the helicopters and the planes. the hard part is this is we got to start training or billing the capacity, the prison systems, the prosecutors, the policemen. we're working on it at the federal level, and they trained 36,000 police. i think they need 150,000 or more than that. we have to go into judges, train the judges, the prosecutors. did you know that a prosecutor here in the united states, if h
israel, egypt, pakistan, iraq, and afghanistan. nothing wrong with that, but we have to work with our frens to the south. we put in 1.4, and with additional money, it's $1.9 billion. for every one dollar we help with mexico, they spend $13. they spend a lot of money on security. they got to -- we got to understand what they are doing. now, what we started off, we did the easy thing, buy them hell cometters, buying this, and e worked with george bush, and filed the first legislation before bush...
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tunisia, egypt and libya to see this. tunisia and egypt have very strong, mature institutions. in libya come or many of us were just recently, moammar gadhafi systematically dismantled the security institutions and of those institutions must be rebuilt from the ground up. reforming the security sector will be a determining factor in the success of the arab spring and the international community, including the united states has an important role to play. says steve suggested, we need a starting point for this discussion, so let's begin with a definition of a concept that has eluded definition most often in conversation. that is, what a security reform? it is a complex task at transforming the institutions and operational forces to safeguard the state and its citizens into professional come in fact even legitimate actors accountable. ssr can be an instrument for conflict prevention. they can be an instrument for conflict management and in the conflict stage can be away of joining things together and moving forward. ssr theoretically must be approached in a holistic manner within
tunisia, egypt and libya to see this. tunisia and egypt have very strong, mature institutions. in libya come or many of us were just recently, moammar gadhafi systematically dismantled the security institutions and of those institutions must be rebuilt from the ground up. reforming the security sector will be a determining factor in the success of the arab spring and the international community, including the united states has an important role to play. says steve suggested, we need a starting...
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egypt, very quickly, just one of the two of you. >> in the case of egypt we have it tremendous a close enduring relationship. that's political and financial relationship. there are levers. the debate is how to exercise those levers, and my own sense is, and it's my personal opinion here, that the more the exercise on the basis of quiet diplomacy's, a dialogue with its security sectors themselves, the more we can push this process forward. at the same time having a public discussion with egyptian leaders about the need for democracy pushes the process for. there's two kinds of discussions that have to be pursued at the same time. let me allude to something hesham said to there are in egypt important civil society groups that have a stake and a part of the dialogue. when he to maintain our relationship with them. the important thing that you pointed out, part of these include element o of the reformt wing the security apparatus. we need to focus on how to sort of engage those potential reforms, how to identify them. so i think those are some of the challenges. >> i think that the united
egypt, very quickly, just one of the two of you. >> in the case of egypt we have it tremendous a close enduring relationship. that's political and financial relationship. there are levers. the debate is how to exercise those levers, and my own sense is, and it's my personal opinion here, that the more the exercise on the basis of quiet diplomacy's, a dialogue with its security sectors themselves, the more we can push this process forward. at the same time having a public discussion with...
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-egypt free trade agreement given all the uncertainty in egypt within the foreseeable future. if it is serious, egypt can reap many of the benefits of free trade through a massive expansion of a qiz system with israel. israel would do this deal in a heartbeat and would lower the amount of is really content required as part of the deal. that would require the islamic president of egypt to recognize the benefits of much significantly broadened qic relationships and utter the word publicly -- israel -- which he has not done in his official capacity. a third initiative, repairing a turkish-israel ties. it is overdue and is in our interests and in the interest of both these countries. i know, mr. president, you tried wants to do this and did not succeed but times have changed. syria has happened. netanyahu will be stronger if he gets reelected. after the politics is clarified, it is time to try this again. well, one last set of items -- what are the game changers'? what are the unknowns that every administration has to deal with at some point in this part of the world? succumb to a
-egypt free trade agreement given all the uncertainty in egypt within the foreseeable future. if it is serious, egypt can reap many of the benefits of free trade through a massive expansion of a qiz system with israel. israel would do this deal in a heartbeat and would lower the amount of is really content required as part of the deal. that would require the islamic president of egypt to recognize the benefits of much significantly broadened qic relationships and utter the word publicly --...
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egypt has seen tensions rise again in recent days with thousands hitting the streets after egypt's president mohamed morsi gave himself new powers by decree last thursday now morsi declared himself above judicial oversight leading to a reported political crisis and today morsi reportedly told the country's top judges he is standing within his rights with those decrees now this has all drawn top headlines but look too at the broader financial crises egypt has paid the benchmark stock index plunged nine point six percent after this decree was issued the worst drop since the arab spring uprisings that ousted hosni mubarak in january of two thousand and eleven according to bloomberg now it was the world's best performing exchange this year not anymore and a country that needs outside investment are you really need stability to lure investors is getting farther from it at least according to a managing director of an egyptian investment firm i spoke to earlier in cairo. the only people who are going. to be of but there. are people who look in for political. and in terms of political pull and who m
egypt has seen tensions rise again in recent days with thousands hitting the streets after egypt's president mohamed morsi gave himself new powers by decree last thursday now morsi declared himself above judicial oversight leading to a reported political crisis and today morsi reportedly told the country's top judges he is standing within his rights with those decrees now this has all drawn top headlines but look too at the broader financial crises egypt has paid the benchmark stock index...
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sovereignty and what has been the backdrop upon which all of the unrest on the streets of egypt has been built according to some. it's all about the economy it has been about the economy the very beginning. when the fifth of john the revolution wouldn't have been a that. if the economic economic conditions were better. and there is one trend we have seen and many more regions than just egypt is this a common theme in fact whether it's catalonians wanting to secede from spain or wal-mart workers striking for higher wages in the u.s. michael kroger is here to tell us what he thinks he is principal of creature asset manager many also the popular blogger and we're so happy to have you in studio thanks for being here it's great to be here warren thanks for having me it's very sad how you so do you think there is a common theme among do seem very desperate obviously everyone has their own political reality whether it's egypt or spain but is there a common theme between what we're seeing again in egypt with people protesting and catalonia where the secession movement appears to be gaining
sovereignty and what has been the backdrop upon which all of the unrest on the streets of egypt has been built according to some. it's all about the economy it has been about the economy the very beginning. when the fifth of john the revolution wouldn't have been a that. if the economic economic conditions were better. and there is one trend we have seen and many more regions than just egypt is this a common theme in fact whether it's catalonians wanting to secede from spain or wal-mart workers...
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we do this to egypt. and i'm sure what shibley was talking about before, this is ridiculous. there were millions of people in the streets at the end of january of 2011. every police station in alexandria had been burned down. tahrir square was occupied. we didn't make it happen. we couldn't have stopped it if we wanted to, and the recognition of that fact, i think, is really important. number one is that old idea that we can go back to simply working with friendly dictators, i think that's just gone. second, i think, which is really important is the idea that we can control the region, that in a sense the region is crying out for our leadership and that every problem in the region has to be solved by us. and i think we -- there's a healthy recognition now beat into us by the war on terror, by iraq and now by the arab uprisings that the ability of the united states to manage and control what happens in the region is quite limited. and so the combination of those two things, i think, then helps to explain a
we do this to egypt. and i'm sure what shibley was talking about before, this is ridiculous. there were millions of people in the streets at the end of january of 2011. every police station in alexandria had been burned down. tahrir square was occupied. we didn't make it happen. we couldn't have stopped it if we wanted to, and the recognition of that fact, i think, is really important. number one is that old idea that we can go back to simply working with friendly dictators, i think that's just...
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and the us isn't bad egypt has stood by its its peace treaty with israel so i would say so far so good and on iraq you know it didn't turn out as the bush administration had hoped for i agree with what john said that this is a government that is day by day getting more centralized and perhaps even autocratic what do we do about it are we supposed to invade again and spend another ten years in iraq trying to get them to some point it's i think you know one has why the length of the carriage and why oh why do americans have to. take root only from the bottom up why why does america have to get people to a certain point ok why peter you know i like to challenge a little bit the way you've been talking about the subject you keep constantly for a minute is american democracy promotion the interesting thing is that almost every establish democracy in the world whether it's brazil india korea spain australia canada engages in different kinds of international support for democracy there's a tendency i think particularly from the russian point of view to see this sort of democracy promotion sub
and the us isn't bad egypt has stood by its its peace treaty with israel so i would say so far so good and on iraq you know it didn't turn out as the bush administration had hoped for i agree with what john said that this is a government that is day by day getting more centralized and perhaps even autocratic what do we do about it are we supposed to invade again and spend another ten years in iraq trying to get them to some point it's i think you know one has why the length of the carriage and...
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palestinians and other issues as well egypt is another example because when the practiced i did in egypt the u.s. was very hesitant to label the protesters and labeled the president in that country so. a lot of it i think the arabs look at this and say we are just skeptical of anything that the u.s. is doing right now their intervention or no intervention in any country is a source of skepticism is a source of critique and that's very understandable when you know when the people have not seen it because a consistent position of the u.s. you know it's what's going on in the arab world lived through it i mean the egyptians we basically went to the last moment when we couldn't support mubarak anymore to jump in and be like we support the revolution but let's talk about syria . do you think that we're giving syria so much attention is it to kind of build up the militarization around iran more is it a proxy playground for us to kind of delve into our interest in the region what is going on there and what you think is going to happen a lot of people would give you different answers i don't thi
palestinians and other issues as well egypt is another example because when the practiced i did in egypt the u.s. was very hesitant to label the protesters and labeled the president in that country so. a lot of it i think the arabs look at this and say we are just skeptical of anything that the u.s. is doing right now their intervention or no intervention in any country is a source of skepticism is a source of critique and that's very understandable when you know when the people have not seen...
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foreign policy flags human rights abuses in countries like syria or egypt and makes one wonder why we condemn one country yet ignore another so what could these u.s. double standards mean for already tense us middle east relationship to help me break this all down and more i'm joined by our to arabic correspondent reba. dia thank you so much for coming on thank you for having me so what do you think about this recent banning of protests in bahrain and why are we hearing about this well then i would say that this is not the only sorry that's not making its way to the mainstream headlines in this country a lot of stories are not making their way to the headlines and a lot of it has to do with policymakers maybe thinking that this is not important enough for that american people to know this is not important enough for to make it to the american. public and this just shows you all how the whole by is the media is here and how they view it that one practice is more important than another product as one killing in one country is more important or less important than another killing in a di
foreign policy flags human rights abuses in countries like syria or egypt and makes one wonder why we condemn one country yet ignore another so what could these u.s. double standards mean for already tense us middle east relationship to help me break this all down and more i'm joined by our to arabic correspondent reba. dia thank you so much for coming on thank you for having me so what do you think about this recent banning of protests in bahrain and why are we hearing about this well then i...
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talked about what we found we look out egypt adhere to everything that was going on. people, you know, all over governments here were likely to we talk to? whose important? here's the scoop. right now industry there's nobody who can raise their hand and so i can identify who was the leader of egyptian revolution, because there wasn't one. it was coalition's ever-changing coalitions of interest moving. as you look at the social media map you see that there was no one leader. so we have got, we as a government and, frankly, governments everywhere have got to figure out to do that, how did he get into that marketplace of ideas. one of the things that we did, not surprising with my background, i was very focused on consumer research, understand what was going on. one of the things i found it in government, we spent a lot of time, hundreds of millions of dollars, looking at economic elites, political elites in others, looking through different lenses. if you just look at it that way, you don't look at it to a more classic consumer lens, then if you are a young 20 year old
talked about what we found we look out egypt adhere to everything that was going on. people, you know, all over governments here were likely to we talk to? whose important? here's the scoop. right now industry there's nobody who can raise their hand and so i can identify who was the leader of egyptian revolution, because there wasn't one. it was coalition's ever-changing coalitions of interest moving. as you look at the social media map you see that there was no one leader. so we have got, we...
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you're watching weekly on r t two egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police and car. crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can now no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have urged him to renounce the decision the opposition has vowed to fight what it calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and staging a sit in that car is told his square prison morsy those defended the move saying it's intended to protect the revolution that paved his way to power after hosni mubarak and his latest comments the leaders stressed his new powers are temporary lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says that egypt's political future is now being put to the test. on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile delicate. this whole movement that was launched a couple years ago or democracy i sometimes say so-called democracy be courageous they're not really giving democratic rights to the people unless the people are participating in the government and
you're watching weekly on r t two egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police and car. crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can now no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have urged him to renounce the decision the opposition has vowed to fight what it calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and staging a sit in that car is told his square prison morsy those defended the...
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helmi human rights activist speaking to us from egypt think i will from the middle east to the far east where north korea is reportedly getting ready to test another one of its missiles tensions are building on the korean peninsula with the south holding military drills in order to mark the shelling of its territory by young and two years ago also for you. according bahrain has a jail terms to not exceed treated pro-reform protesters as the country is slammed by human rights organizations for the long running brutal crackdown on dissent. british lib dem minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power essentially children are set back for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave or would that be paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic of her view but my question is featherstone is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way
helmi human rights activist speaking to us from egypt think i will from the middle east to the far east where north korea is reportedly getting ready to test another one of its missiles tensions are building on the korean peninsula with the south holding military drills in order to mark the shelling of its territory by young and two years ago also for you. according bahrain has a jail terms to not exceed treated pro-reform protesters as the country is slammed by human rights organizations for...
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he's also has some kind of strong he has strong backing from the west so till the actual people of egypt like all these other countries that have gone through these to mold to his time to people are giving real. it's to grow until we get real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people been pummeled by police first on the bar now in the morsi it's not going to stop do we actually have a real power for the future of the country you leaders of lost the budget battle in brussels where the decision on their trillion euro come on spending now moved to next year weaker members had rushed to safeguard support programs while those pouring in more cash into european coffers urged belt tightening and the u.k. was among the loudest voices in favor of coughing up last r.t. sarah firth explains. with the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate olson italy ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight the european leaders ultimately failing to com
he's also has some kind of strong he has strong backing from the west so till the actual people of egypt like all these other countries that have gone through these to mold to his time to people are giving real. it's to grow until we get real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people been pummeled by police first on the bar now in the morsi it's not going to stop do we actually have a real power for the future of the...
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well clashes in egypt in different parts of egypt have erupted as thousands of protesters have taken to the streets reacting to calls from the country's opposition leaders for nationwide demonstrations the outrage is driven by a new decree granting president mohamed morsi a wider range of powers his decisions can no longer be repealed by any authority including the judiciary the move was slammed as a coup against legitimacy of the opposition claiming that the president has appointed himself but actually the egypt's new pharaoh now morsi took power in june this year following the nation's first presidential election after the ousting of former leader hosni mubarak earlier we spoke to shame a hell of a human rights activist and she says the people are confused as members of the former regime are now part of the opposition. there are lots of questions in many you know decisions that come randomly that nobody understands. we are pretty confused over why would she make such decisions at the movements and why not earlier why not anytime soon the news. right now in the video position cam do
well clashes in egypt in different parts of egypt have erupted as thousands of protesters have taken to the streets reacting to calls from the country's opposition leaders for nationwide demonstrations the outrage is driven by a new decree granting president mohamed morsi a wider range of powers his decisions can no longer be repealed by any authority including the judiciary the move was slammed as a coup against legitimacy of the opposition claiming that the president has appointed himself but...
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because as a democratically elected government of gaza it's proved to have so many allies from iran to egypt they have to be part of any peace negotiations for a one party state which will after. scored its victory with the most basic of rockets really these homemade things is a sea change in actual nick the thing to watch is the right in israel and how they react out of the polling numbers for the coming israeli elections show a swing to the so-called extremists. well israel's deputy foreign minister says most of the people hit by israeli strikes deserved it claiming there were armed terrorists however palestinian health officials and human rights activists say more than two thirds of those killed were civilians almost half of them children israel though says the ratio is never actually perry a former senior advisor for israel's foreign ministry says the casualty figures demonstrate nutrients. israel has invested billions of dollars protecting its people either through more protected rooms so every single rockets which emanated from gaza had the intent to kill in fact it intended to kill ma
because as a democratically elected government of gaza it's proved to have so many allies from iran to egypt they have to be part of any peace negotiations for a one party state which will after. scored its victory with the most basic of rockets really these homemade things is a sea change in actual nick the thing to watch is the right in israel and how they react out of the polling numbers for the coming israeli elections show a swing to the so-called extremists. well israel's deputy foreign...
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into by sending twenty five hundred troops to the region and now those protests underway in egypt after president mohamed morsi gave himself more power the u.s. support of the arab spring in egypt so how will they react to these latest protests in the ever changing middle east and the twenty twelve election is over and conservatives lost a look at how religious affiliation played a big role in the way americans voted and how we're non-religious voters are changing the political playing field well that is going to do it for us for now but for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america or check out our website it's r t dot com slash usa and you should follow me on twitter you can find me at christine for is out for now have a great night and a great weekend.
into by sending twenty five hundred troops to the region and now those protests underway in egypt after president mohamed morsi gave himself more power the u.s. support of the arab spring in egypt so how will they react to these latest protests in the ever changing middle east and the twenty twelve election is over and conservatives lost a look at how religious affiliation played a big role in the way americans voted and how we're non-religious voters are changing the political playing field...
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institute of peace looking at the state of security forces in egypt, tunisia and libya. the arab spring are in the state of transition with the army, police and intelligence services playing different roles in each. this took place earlier this week in washington. it's two hours. >> good morning everyone. i'm steve heydemann for issues of the u.s. institute of peace, and we are delighted to see you all here at today's session on the securities sector reform in the arab world and some rsvp to me have been scared by the false rumor that it would be subjected to a political polling experience following the panel. that is not the case. so you do not need to worry about that. we are very pleased to have you here with us all this morning. i would like to stress that our topic this morning i think is both particularly important but also especially urgent. i do not think that it is an exaggeration to say what happens with the security sectors in the arab world and by security sectors i mean the police, the armed forces, and most of all of course the very substantial intelligence
institute of peace looking at the state of security forces in egypt, tunisia and libya. the arab spring are in the state of transition with the army, police and intelligence services playing different roles in each. this took place earlier this week in washington. it's two hours. >> good morning everyone. i'm steve heydemann for issues of the u.s. institute of peace, and we are delighted to see you all here at today's session on the securities sector reform in the arab world and some rsvp...
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workers who are refusing to just let go and of course these are the workers you're threatened with in egypt in egypt and layoffs and you to get your latest kind of package i was going to doing by the greek parliament should be able to really put on getting on a flight on the ground and is a just a matter of international media picking up a time to actually. now the greek anger is well understood and the u.k. thousands of students who are e.s.l. rocketing tuition fees have marched through london as the government struggles to hand the country's finances we report on that later in the fower. plus bahrain's war and its sliding into a spiral of repression and violence by amnesty international which can damage the country's ongoing human rights abuses and its broken reform promises more on that after the short break. british live demo minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power essentially children are a setback for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave
workers who are refusing to just let go and of course these are the workers you're threatened with in egypt in egypt and layoffs and you to get your latest kind of package i was going to doing by the greek parliament should be able to really put on getting on a flight on the ground and is a just a matter of international media picking up a time to actually. now the greek anger is well understood and the u.k. thousands of students who are e.s.l. rocketing tuition fees have marched through london...
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few months ago i think he's also has strong backing from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through the third tamal to its time until the people are given real economic development totally given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people didn't commonly by police first on the mubarak now and the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy for the future of the country. this week european union leaders failed to reach a deal and off the days of negotiating the blocks financial future in brussels most you members supported an increase in the budget while some including britain called for cuts claiming that in a time of a sturdy nations don't have money to spare sarah for three ports. we're here at the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate over symmetry ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight the european leaders all similarly failing to come up wi
few months ago i think he's also has strong backing from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through the third tamal to its time until the people are given real economic development totally given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people didn't commonly by police first on the mubarak now and the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy...
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to egypt where protests have now entered their fourth day earlier police in cairo fired tear gas to disperse crowds the demonstrations are aimed against president morsi decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can now no longer be challenged by any authority reports say one person was killed in an attack on a muslim brotherhood office the same islam is the movement of the back the president the opposition is staging a sit in and cairo's tahrir square while egypt's top judges have called for a nationwide strike mohamed morsi has defended the move saying it's aimed at protecting the revolution that paved his way to power and his latest comments later stressed his new powers are temper. middle east analyst at the university of sydney believe the crisis is only deepening. its actual deadlock the fact that morsi has gone this far and he's actually moved. it would be you know he would have to lose face in order to do that but you know i don't have a moment really it's anyone's guess because the situation in egypt is the love it's all eyes and it's very mental politics and now i know y
to egypt where protests have now entered their fourth day earlier police in cairo fired tear gas to disperse crowds the demonstrations are aimed against president morsi decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can now no longer be challenged by any authority reports say one person was killed in an attack on a muslim brotherhood office the same islam is the movement of the back the president the opposition is staging a sit in and cairo's tahrir square while egypt's top judges have...
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hamas has just come into force something being hammered out during marathon negotiations hosted by egypt israel's been pounding the palestinian territory with missiles in both the air and sea for more than a week in response to hamas says cross border rockets a correspondent in tel aviv reports on the much sought after troops. a ceasefire has been announced and agreed to by both israel and hamas this is the second time in two days that we've heard such an announcement but this time it so does seem as if it's accurate it was earlier at a press conference between the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and the egyptian foreign minister at that press conference clinton said that the u.s. was committed to making sure that these raids face an increased safety and security situation and also to improving the conditions of people in gaza and egypt for its side has said that cairo has a historical duty to represent and help the people of palestine now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier held a telephone call with the american president barack obama in that phone call he sai
hamas has just come into force something being hammered out during marathon negotiations hosted by egypt israel's been pounding the palestinian territory with missiles in both the air and sea for more than a week in response to hamas says cross border rockets a correspondent in tel aviv reports on the much sought after troops. a ceasefire has been announced and agreed to by both israel and hamas this is the second time in two days that we've heard such an announcement but this time it so does...
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i think we actually had an effect in egypt. and one of the things that we have done at the bipartisan policy matter is to cod fie that effect. what did america do in egypt that might have helped a little bit in the arab springs? >> we have time for up with more question. hi. i'm matt. the senior policy annalist -- focusing on public diplomacy. [inaudible] bringing down the soviet union. what is the purpose now. the war of idea or against violent extremism. i'm hoping we have a better more grand strategic purpose. i was wondering for i could get your thoughts on that. >> sure. great. terrific. thank you for the question. the war of idea still a viable concept? or did we move past that? >> i think it's the most viable concept. i have to say that during the transition, i was warned by all the transition people not use that term. and i think i don't know whether the term has been banned or not. i understand that. war we don't like war. we like ideas. so i do think whatever you want to call it. ideological dr competition of idea is
i think we actually had an effect in egypt. and one of the things that we have done at the bipartisan policy matter is to cod fie that effect. what did america do in egypt that might have helped a little bit in the arab springs? >> we have time for up with more question. hi. i'm matt. the senior policy annalist -- focusing on public diplomacy. [inaudible] bringing down the soviet union. what is the purpose now. the war of idea or against violent extremism. i'm hoping we have a better more...
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increased safety and security situation and also to improving the conditions of people in gaza and egypt for its side has said that cairo has a historical duty to represent and help the people of palestine now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier held a telephone call with the american president barack obama in that phone call he said that israel was ready to give the cease fire a chance a bomb responded by saying that america was on hand to assist as well with its problem these are the smuggling of weapons and other items through the tunnels that lead between egypt gaza and sometimes even reaching a little bit into israel is what is of course very concerned around the claim that it needs to lift its blockade of the information we have is that while agreeing to the cease fire it has not given the nod that in fact it will lift the blockade it has had on gaza for several years now now the cease fire is a surprise to everyone it comes off to a bloody day both in israel and in gaza we have no details at this stage in terms of what exactly are the terms of the cease fire will
increased safety and security situation and also to improving the conditions of people in gaza and egypt for its side has said that cairo has a historical duty to represent and help the people of palestine now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier held a telephone call with the american president barack obama in that phone call he said that israel was ready to give the cease fire a chance a bomb responded by saying that america was on hand to assist as well with its problem...
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in egypt to lay off due to too late this kind of package i was going to doing by the greek parliament so people are really put on getting on a fight on the ground and is just a matter of the international media picking up a time to actually. and as the greek struggle to draw attention to they are suffering there is a little relief on the horizon with a postcard of twenty two thousand more jobs put down to a mistake by the i.m.f. so had to call for the whole story. plus bearing all is sure to draw attention by staging a provocative protest as earned several feminist activist some want to welcome attention from french protestors. war lords will give him a note so we have a local. groups view of the closeness of the sluices also our views in the right enough to my mouth it was like many of them out h. it wasn't. the smadi when i was fourteen yes you can liberate other when they certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe going to spawn come to a cross post without a patient it's chemical for
in egypt to lay off due to too late this kind of package i was going to doing by the greek parliament so people are really put on getting on a fight on the ground and is just a matter of the international media picking up a time to actually. and as the greek struggle to draw attention to they are suffering there is a little relief on the horizon with a postcard of twenty two thousand more jobs put down to a mistake by the i.m.f. so had to call for the whole story. plus bearing all is sure to...